She has said she was preoccupied with death from a young age, and its role in her feelings of anxiety and alienation: According to Grant, she had trouble making friends during much of her teenage and early adult years. Her uncle, an admissions officer at the school, secured her financial aid to attend. She attended the high school where her mother taught for one year, but when she was 15 her parents sent her to Kent School to resolve a budding drinking problem. Agnes School in her elementary years and began singing in her church choir, where she was the cantor. In Lake Placid, her father worked for a furniture company before becoming an entrepreneurial domain investor her mother worked as a schoolteacher. When she was one year old, the family moved to Lake Placid, New York. She was raised Roman Catholic and is of Scottish descent. She has a younger sister, Caroline, and a younger brother, Charlie.